Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-04
upon all who visit the Queen City OF
IN THE QUEEN CITY.

speeches the TACT was developed IlaG
Fort Worth threw wide open her doors
60 entertain her guests free of any charge.
Street car lines, carriages, telegraphs,
express lines, private houses, hotels,
railroads, IN fact all was offered free
with the further request to ask for any
thing you did not see. With this kind OF !
6 welcome the association adjourned for !
dirner. The first man we met on going |
ovt was Henry NJ. Furman, Esq. He did |
rot invite US with him TO dinner, but
said he belonged to the committee, end
we mad TO 20. Mrs. Furman was zee
student of ours, and OF course we did not
resist Dir. Furman's orders, but accompa-
MED him TO tie home Of Colonel Peter
Smith. We were ushsred into this hos
pitable home, where everything has the
appearance of easy comfort. We took
cur seat in & great, wide chair, the frame
OF which was made Of cow horns, ar
ranged il the most unique manner. LIS
tening 10 the easy conversation OF III,
Farman upor the live questions Of cur
time, prohibition one OF them but not
al OK Jnem1, snd to rich music that Mrs.
Rogers rendered in an adjoining EarIOr,
: The time went by UNDECIDED. We cid not
have the pleasure OF meeting Colonel
Smith at ais house, bEG we met the "bet-
ter-halt' of that enteTprising firm. Dinner
announced, we were shown &c the din
ing-room, where the table ind every
thing o. it made you feel comfortable
and easy.
Here is d magnificent home that is sap
piled with all that wealth can create or
give, where the uniDiti6ted can stand
upon en- equal footing with those VINO
practice the pCmpous etiquette Of the
court.
Again to the association, after the
transaction Of the businesS, we fed the
street Csrs il waiting to carry US TO the
grocery house of JOSEPH II. Brown. 1t
aGlOnisheS one to see how many people
can get into street car when it is neces-
serY, and how many the little males can
| pail when they get right down TO bust
LesS. We were carried on the elevator
! 30 the very top Of the big grocery house.
( As the conductor would stop midway OF
each story for Us TO look down upon the
( boxes, bundles, barrels aud bags Of things
TO eat il looked rs if there was
enough there TO feed Texas and TO spare.
/ On the return trip they unlCsled US in
the cellar, showing Us that even below,
! the proprietor of this magnificent estab-
! lishment has good things in store. we
ere afraid to give the dimensions Of this
house for fear We will be called the Null
! hatton of the Texas press. Railroads
/ Ihere ere lots o. railroads IN Fort
! Worth, are built right along side this
house so that # Iaan wants to buy by
! the car load they are ready for him. The
next time the association meets in FOrI
! Worth we want TO bring home 4 Car load
! Of 10 Browns things go that we viii not
! have to always be running 20 the stores.
/ Through the main building they took Us
| 20 the house where they manufacture
goods. Here we say roll of
candy as big as Texas tree which
! fellow kept rolling over aroUld 8 stove TO
| keep ii warm SO that they could
drqw it out to eating size.
When we sgaiu reached terra tirma ne
found 6 long line Of carriages in waiting
| to snow US the city. We know we had
the best drive in the private carriage of
Mr.. a. B. Smith, the populer and efficient
cashier OF the Merchants Rational bank.
The gentlemen who enjoyed with US the
peculiar good fortune were Mr.. o. w.
! DOdson OF the Rusk County Times, and
S. r. Whitley, Esq of the 0Yerton Sharp
Shooter. Mr.. Smith is one of those men
that Knows when the tide reaches it's
food, and he came here from Jefferson in
time To take an active part in the rapid
progress of his adopted town. He
drove us across the Pacific railroad
south, by the railroad hospital to the utter
most limit of the town, then west to where
the Trinity bluffs says to the driving,
pushing citizens, thus far shalt thou
come, but no further. Our friend, though
not long in Fort Worth, knows where
everybody lives, and he kept Us posted as
we passed, and that without our having
to ask. As he tells us now this lot has
doubled in value in q day, now that
bought for $1,000 has since sold for Sl0,
600, il makes us dizzy in the reckless ar
ray of figures. Now we turn toward the
city, when We find ourselves again in
front of the splendid mansion where we
were to dinner. We are shown the box |
house in corner Of the yard, which |
reaches from Second street to Third, |
where Colonel Smith lived in other days, |
and which he carefully preserves as g
part of his history.
Now we are hurled along through the
fashionable part Of the city, where ground |
Is fabulously high. Up on one side and |
down the other we come again to Main,
expecting to be left at the PickwiCk; but |
no, this is only a part of Fort Worth, we !
must see some more. We pass or to |
where new railroads make our progress
slower. Soon across, we are veTging
again TO the brink. Now we find our
selves travelling along fHe road, past
lots and residences until we reach the pa
vilion on the other limit of town. Soon
We are making toward the square across
which and down the incline we 60
across Trinity rlvet and out of town
along one of The best graded roads that
Texas has.
The surveyors OF another new railroad
are pointed out to US, and here st the
bridge on our return we meet Colonel
Smith, afoot and without coat, his favor
tie method of travel, going out to show
the surveyors the route across the bot
tom. Now we ere reminded OF an amusing
anecdote that Mrs. Smith told us, how
that on a certain occasion the Governor
was TO be with them to dinner, and she
urged her husband TO get on his coat,
when 10! there was no coat to be found
in the house. Starting the servant to his
Office, he gathered up five on his re-
turn, We have been invited to
visit the cracker factory on Throckmor-
ton street, and for Crsnfll's sake, If
for no other consideration, we must